http://www.geekforgod.com The ramblings of a Christian geek Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:56:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm starting to learn to create .deb packages for Debian or Ubuntu. A quick breadcrumb trail for myself, to remind me of where I've found useful information: Packaging session from Ubuntu Open Week (and part 2) PackagingBasics from Ubuntu wiki PbuilderHowto from Ubuntu wiki http://www.geekforgod.com/2007/07/18/learning-to-create-debianubuntu-packages/ If you're using Subversion to connect to an HTTPS repository that's signed by a non-standard root certificate -- such as a CACert.org certificate, for example -- here's how to do it on Linux or OS X. (Windows users: sorry, you're out of luck. I haven't developed on Windows since 1999, ... http://www.geekforgod.com/2006/12/01/making-svn-trust-a-new-root-ca-certificate/ There's a research project at University of Toronto that's exploring different ideas for how people interact with computers. Here's an interesting new way of looking at the "desktop" metaphor. There's some rather clever ideas there. http://www.geekforgod.com/2006/08/05/interesting-ideas-for-human-computer-interaction/ SQLAlchemy is a very useful database-access library for Python. It's got excellent documentation; but what it was missing until recently was a tutorial. I wrote a step-by-step SQLAlchemy tutorial to fill in the gap. Of course, the day after I wrote it, SQLAlchemy's author posted the tutorial that he'd been ... http://www.geekforgod.com/2006/05/04/a-step-by-step-sqlalchemy-tutorial/ Today is the day of Pascha, more commonly known in English as Easter. (At least in the Western tradition -- the Eastern tradition will celebrate it one week later this year). It is, bar none, the most important celebration of the year for Christians, more important even than Christmas. Christmas ... http://www.geekforgod.com/2006/04/16/he-is-risen/ Life in Africa can be quite interesting sometimes. Just down the street from where I work, there's an American Recreation Center that, among other things, has a softball field, and hosts a weekly game of softball on Saturday afternoons. So on my first weekend here, I went down to the "Rec" ... http://www.geekforgod.com/2006/04/07/if-the-ball-hits-the-turtle-its-still-in-play/ This blog has been languishing on the vine lately. I've hardly updated it at all for months, and when I have updated it, it's usually been with a "Hey, here's some extremely geeky stuff that I may want to remember later but nobody else would be interested in." That's not what ... http://www.geekforgod.com/2006/04/06/picking-up-the-keyboard-again/ I often end up working on Windows machines that don't have the right drivers installed for this or that piece of hardware. And since Windows makes it difficult to get at the actual PCI ID's for its devices, all you have to go on is the "Unknown Device" entry in ... http://www.geekforgod.com/2006/02/02/pci-id-viewer-for-windows/ A few useful programming links gleaned from various sources: Python plugins Continuous integration with buildbot How to be a Programmer http://www.geekforgod.com/2006/02/02/some-useful-programming-links/ I just deleted my first blogspam comment, so I think it's time to write up a comment policy, before I actually start needing it. So, without further ado, here are The Rules: 1. This is my blog. Nothing obliges me to let you comment here. I do so because I'm interested ... http://www.geekforgod.com/2006/01/27/comment-policy/